נָתַץ
nâthats · naw-thats'
to tear down
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to tear down
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: beat down, break down (out), cast down, destroy, overthrow, pull down, throw down.
Letters
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
- תTav400
Picture: a crossed mark
- Concrete
- mark · sign · cross · signature
- Extended
- a covenant · to seal · to sign · the end · monument
- צTsade90
Picture: a person lying on their side (or a fish hook)
- Concrete
- hook · trail · side · a man bowed
- Extended
- to hunt · to pursue · need · righteousness as a straight path
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the seed, life continuing › the mark, the covenant sign › to pursue the straight path
The seed, life continuing of the mark, the covenant sign that works to pursue the straight path.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of נָתַץ above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
42 occurrences · 42 OT · 0 NT · 36 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and brake down4 · 13%
- and they brake down2 · 6%
- and brake it down2 · 6%
- brake down2 · 6%
- and to pull down2 · 6%
- but ye shall destroy1 · 3%
- for pots, they shall be broken down1 · 3%
- and he shall break down1 · 3%
- with them; ye shall destroy1 · 3%
- and ye shall overthrow1 · 3%
- ye shall throw down1 · 3%
- was cast down1 · 3%
- because he hath cast down1 · 3%
- for himself, because one hath cast down1 · 3%
- against him, because he hath thrown down1 · 3%
- i will break down1 · 3%
- and he beat down1 · 3%
- that was therein, and beat down1 · 3%
- and he brake down1 · 3%
- beat down1 · 3%
- he brake down1 · 3%
- and threw down1 · 3%
- had broken down1 · 3%
- and when he had broken down1 · 3%
- he hath destroyed1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.